My End of the Year Shop Skills

By: Elliot Leahy

Working with Photoshop
Photoshop is a program
you can use to edit
photos You can use
Photoshop on a Windows
or Mac OS computer and
was originally created in
1988 by Thomas Kroll and
John Knoll. Since the
creation of Adobe
Photoshop it has taken
the digital art world by
storm and is now an
industry standard.
Getting started
When using photoshop you need to be able to know:
1. How to open and save a PSD file
2. How to click through and search for things
3. How to use the tools on photoshop
4. How to put everything together by practicing on a photo

Being able to get used to the software itself will make being able to use the tools much
easier so first and foremost you should start by learning how to create and save projects.

I believe that before you go off and start your own project that it is important to learn how
the tools actually work so you can build onto what you’ve learned will help you in the long
run instead of just blindly picking random tools to hope it works and learning that way, it
will take less time and be easier for you.

You will end up with a much better result and will have a cleaner look
What I want to learn more of in school:
1. Making posters for films
2. Editing photos for photography
projects
3. Making graphics for films
I want to make my own memes by
combining images or edit my own photos
to make them look better and get rid of
things that I don’t like or imperfections
that I want to get rid of. These could be
fun projects like we have done before!.
This is an example of something I
I also want to be able to do more work with made in class for fun
photography so I can change or edit
things to make my photos look better.
 This is one of projects that we did in class using a few
tools to erase parts of an image and replace it!

I erased the statue of liberty and added in Tom Nook

from animal crossing and Doug Dimmadome from Fairly
Example: Odd Parents
For Example: How I’ve used this:
If you are trying to edit out a feature So for this example I will be using a photo
someone has in your photo as well as for a mini project we did in shop, it was to
make the photo look darker then you turn yourself into a zombie!
would take the clone stamp tool and with
your cursor over the area you want to I used a bunch of different tools for this
clone you will alt-click option to define your project but for this I want to highlight the
source then position the cursor over the eyes. I used the clone stamp tool to make
area that you want to change and start my eyes one solid color, getting rid of my
using the cursor to draw or paint over the pupils.
area, you might need to select multiple
times in case the area is multicolor. To I also darkened my image
make the image darker you will go to
Image then Adjustments and lastly
Brightness/Control where you will drag the
brightness scale a little to the left until you
like the way the photo comes out.
 Photo 1: This is
what I ended up
with, It was a
project where you
were supposed to
turn yourself into a
Zombie by using a
couple different
tools.

Photo 2: My
original photo,
taken from home.

Example:
Other uses
Another way you can use
photoshop to create
something is drawing.

I use the pencil tool for

this a lot and their
extensive color palette
you can draw or create
anything, you can use
other tools to work to your
advantage while drawing
as well!
 Here are some more
drawings I have done,
These use a lot of
layers, layers are used
to work on single parts
of an image while not
having to touch other
parts. They let you to
change your image,
add text, change
colors, and more
without modifying your
original photo.

Photoshop’s editing software is used for many things. This

includes but is not limited to: Photo Editing, Drawing, and
Graphic Design. It uses a system to edit where use layers to help
Example: you edit and keep control of your image using overlays!